Re: Change SMTP server

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From: Leif Pedersen [MVP] (leif.pedersenNOSPAM_at_get2net.dk)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:27:10 +0200

Hi,

If you create a SMTP connector the server which is this connector is
configured to use will be the server sending emails.

Leif

"Carol Chisholm" <carol.lists@smalldomain.ch> skrev i en meddelelse
news:76ubj0plm3fnfl4qmu4tfkpdsak545999t@4ax.com...
> Neither work.
>
> Messages sent from Outlook clients go from the outbox, then vanish and
> do not appear in queues on the second server. They re-appear in the
> queue on the first server when I re-enable it, and are then sent out.
>
> Incoming does not seem to work either. I route the incoming SMPT from
> my firewall/router to the IP address of the second server, but it does
> not seem to accept them.
>
> I'll keep trying.
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:06:31 -0400, "Ade Famoti [MSFT]"
> <ade@online.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >What piece doesnt work...outbound or inbound.
> >
> >Inbound internet mail will be determined by your DNS MX record
configuration
> >or your router settings for port 25 if thats where the record points to.
> >
> >Outbound needs no other intervention besides configuring the servers with
a
> >valid DNS server that can resolve internet names. If you do have an SMTP
> >connector, then you can add the server you want as the local or source
> >bridgehead wth an address space of asterisk *.
> >
> >Hope this helps out.
> >
> >Ade
> >
> >"Carol Chisholm" <carol.lists@smalldomain.ch> wrote in message
> >news:cj89j0dsuff40qfsesg5bofocsmie0h5j1@4ax.com...
> >> I've two Exchange 2003 servers in the same routing group.
> >>
> >> I would like to change the one which sends and receives SMTP mail.
> >>
> >> Both have a Default SMTP Virtual Server configured.
> >>
> >> To switch over:
> >> Change router settings to send SMTP to the second server.
> >> Stop the Default SMTP Virtual Server on the first server.
> >> Start the Default SMTP Virtual Server on the second server.
> >> It does not work.
> >>
> >> What step am I missing?
> >>
> >>
> >
>

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